Advance Trac Fault

[Ofury_s550]

Hi must-gang ;)

I have a 18 GT that its messing up my driving, or should I say burnouts ...

Jokes aside, im really concerned that the car is only 3500 miles, all stock manual, only upgrade is a steeda strout tower bar, street shifter and shifter braket so far. So the issue is that if I want to have fun and go do some nasty burnouts and donuts, put it in track mode, turn off advance trac and once i hit 180 degrees the car looses power, i get no throttle response and brakes kick in, then it falls out of track mode into normal and advamce trac service comes on, then hill start assist fault, next morning the tire kit service went off, so this only happens if i spin the car, straight line burnouts don't seem to affect it, but as soon as i loose the tail, half way into it the car brakes itself and faults out of adv trac and all nannies back on, so wtf! Is going on, this is so frustrating...
Also the front collission thing faulted as well, i don't know if should bring it to the dealer for this while having these mods and if that would've voided the warranty, im assuming the strout bar didn't, but what about the shifter and bracket, i know the issue is likely to be electrical, but dont want to risk bringin it in and have the car flagged for a freaking shifter, when the problem is electrical or sensor related.

Anyways, any advice is appreciated, that be on the issue itself or the warranty and not having issues when i bring it in to get checked.

Thanks in advance folks, I'll see if i can add a video or link to one so you can see what I'm reffering to.

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[Zinc03svt]

Try unplugging the advancetrac by the airbox. That stops the nannies completely. Just realize the car is trying to prevent YOU from wrecking it. It was obviously doing a good job. I sense another Darwin award coming...

 

[Ofury_s550]

Zinc03svt, thanks for your reply. I figured that much, but isn't supposed to go off of Track Mode into Normal like its doing, it's supposed to stay in track mode and let me do whatever i want without all the nannies, also all the warnings and stuff that I'm getting after that happens doesn't feel normal.
I'm at the dealer now, hopefully they can take a look at it.
Thanks

 

[Zinc03svt]

I doubt you have any issues. Track mode is still going to try and keep car straight regardless of what you turn off via button. It overrides it.

Once unplugged it is all on your professional driving skills. Lol.

 

[lil'Zeus]

Have you tried holding the traction control button for 10 seconds to turn off the advanced trac mode? I'm not into burnouts etc but I know for trac use a lot of guys don't want the advance trac on and that is how you turn it off. Just hold on if you do.

 

[Ofury_s550]

Yeah, I've every single time, but its defaulting to normal mode when the fault goes off.

So every time this happens, I'll put the car in track and hold traction control 5 sec which is all you need to turn adv track mode off.

Ford said today that no codes are logged, just informational of the system launching collision assist and braking the car, but no faulty codes, so all the fault codes that I'm getting from the smartpass and dashboard are false positives themselves? That makes no sense at all!

 

[ChiTownStang26]

Ask a tech to take a drive with you and go do your burnout and show him. If I'm on track mode, pop the clutch, spin and kick the back end out, it never reverts to normal or do I have faults like yours idk that's odd and you may need to show them... just find a younger tech so they dont have a heart attack

 

[lil'Zeus]

yeah I'm not sure then I figured it would shut it down.

 

[Ofury_s550]

Funny you mention that, i just did 30 min ago. Young tech and he took me into a empty parking lot, cool guy, so i did showed him and he said he'll contact Ford. Waiting to hear from them now...

Just to clarify, I'm not a knucklehead doing burnouts every 5 min and on the open roads, but everyone does a burnout or donut once in a while, and I've multiple times and i know this is not normal behavior, i wouldn't call myself a pro driver by any means, but a somewhat skilled at the wheel, so i have this car pretty controlled, the car is just doing weird stuff and faulting

 

[ChiTownStang26]

@Ofury_s550

Lol nice, no man your right it should definitely not be doing that regardless of skill. Glad you were able to show a tech exactly the problem and their going to look into it.

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